Find out how to participate in HENCE, which advocates making community engagement a core element of higher education's role in society.

"The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world."

Applications are now being accepted for the Safe Schools – Healthy Students grant, which supports community-wide efforts to create safe and drug-free school environments. Plans must address school safety, violence prevention, substance abuse prevention (including tobacco and alcohol), social supports for students, mental health services and early childhood programs. The deadline is March 14, 2008.

Applications are being accepted for a program that supports
schools and community organizations that serve meals to low income children during the summer months. The Indiana Department of Education is facilitating the federal Summer Food Service Program for Children. This program reimburses local sponsors that serve healthy meals and snacks to children and teens in low-income communities during the summer months. The deadline is April 28, 2008

The Carol M. White Physical Education Program supports school districts, schools, youth agencies and faith-based organizations to start, expand or strengthen phys ed programs for K-12 students. The grant range is $100,000 to $500,000. Applications are due March 24, 2008.

This online resources, designed by the National 4-H Council and the University of Arizona, provides youth-serving organizations with methods for motivating 9 to 13 year-olds to make healthy choices. On this site you’ll find an extensive database of curricula, literature review, which is reviewed by a panel of experts, an assessment tool, and more.

This honor will be awarded to as many as five young Hoosiers who have made a significant difference in their Indiana
communities. Hoosiers are encouraged to nominate an outstanding youth in their community. Any student enrolled in
grades K-12 during the 2007-08 school year is eligible. All application materials should be submitted together and must be postmarked by April 1, 2008.

In this workshop led by Roger Williams from Emergent Leadership Institute and Kirsten Eamon-Shine, participants will explore social networking sites and how online tools can support positive youth development.  This fun, participatory training provides an overview of online tools that engage youth and hints about how you can utilize these tools to benefit your programs and youth.  When & Where: Wednesday, April 16, 10 am to noon at the United Way Building in Indianapolis. Registration fee: $15. 

The Peace Learning Center offers a half-day session on Addressing Conflict in Healthy Ways. This session will be held April 18 from 8:30 am - 12:00 pm. Participants will learn and practice techniques such as asking for and expressing oneself with clarity, setting healthy boundaries, and learn how body language and tone of voice can help or hinder our communication with others. Cost of the session is $25.

This document outlines standards for making service learning experiences meaningful and relevant.

This interactive tool, funded by the Lumina Foundation for Education and developed by the National Council for Community and Education Partnerships, was developed postsecondary access programs retain business partners.

This online course is for tutoring, mentoring, out-of-school time, and other youth-development programs funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service. Using interactive elements, audio-visuals, and downloadable documents, the course highlights best practices used by effective youth-serving programs.

Play the official online mini game of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and embrace the competitive spirit of the world's most prestigious sporting event.

Pledge your support to eliminate the r-word from your vocabulary, and learn more about the Special Olympics.

The Indiana Partnerships Center "works to empower parents about their rights and responsibilities pertaining to their children’s education." The center offers parent-focused workshops, provides education-related information and resources, and helps schools develop parent engagement strategies.

This resource is hosted by Apple Computers, and offers educators the chance to post and exchange new and innovative ideas to bring new life to their curriculum.  There is also a variety of podcasts, as well as virtual field trips and lesson plans to help jump start new ideas for students to learn required material.

This resource is hosted by the North Central Regional Education Library in affiliation with Learning Point Associates.  This resource is set-up to showcase the problems school face with “at risk” kids when it comes to learning new technology.  Along with the problems, this site offers helpful and constructive resources, including press releases, which aim to uncover new teaching methods which will benefit the “at risk” youth.

This resource partners with the girleffect.org. The purpose of this organization is to provide educational support and resources to developing countries all over the world.  The goal is to focus on empowering women in order to spark change and development in their respective countries.

Invent Now is an organization sponsored by the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation.  Have you ever had a great idea, but was not sure how to showcase it?  Look no further!  Invent Now is a website that allows students to share their innovative ideas and provides guidance on how to patent project ideas.  This is a great way to encourage creative thinking!  Who knows, the students idea may just be the next BIG thing!

The Pew internet project is an initiative of the Pew Research Center.  The goal of the website is to provide information and updates on the events impacting the world today.  A main topic that the Pew Research Center focusses on is the impact of the internet on children and the workplace.  This is a great site to brush up on current issues as well as explore how the ever changing technological world effects our society.

The GREENS is a website designed to educate kids about the importance of sustainability and green living.  With interactive lesson plans and stories, kids are able to learn about what they can do to help sustain the environment.  By utilizing pop culture, the GREEN project gives kids a glimpse of what Green living can look like in their own home.  This is a great source for all children wanting to learn how they can help better the environment!

The Human Rights Action Center is an organization devoted to celebrating the Human Rights movement.  The center puts on an annual concert in celebration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  The concert is also meant to bring donations and awareness to the issues facing the human rights movement in the present day.  Please feel free to visit the website to learn about how you can help support the Human Rights Action Center!

Curriki is a non-profit organization which aims to encourage collaboration among teachers all over the world.  There are thousands of lesson plan ideas for students of all ages, as well as a section to post creative lesson plans.  This site promotes high quality ideas to all teachers and is a must see for anyone looking for innovative and exciting ideas for the classroom!

The Education Leadership Journal brings us an exciting article aimed to give educators and administrators insight into how students want to be taught.  In addition to advising teachers on effective teaching methods, students talk about how they would like to be treated in the classroom setting.  For each request, there are several written stories under each displaying how the suggestion helped students succeed in the classroom.  This article delivers great insight, and is valuable to any educator or administrator looking to become more effective and influential in the classroom!

The Indiana Department of Education hosts a wide variety of resources for educators.  This specific weblink is a portal for web resources updated monthly.  The resources on the portal are meant to assist teachers in updating curriculums, as well as meant to promote employment opportunities and career development.